Inside Baylor's new stadium, McLane ...

[HandSanitizer]

I would take a modern, loud and close feeling stadium than something like Penn State that looks like the boone county speedway and holds 110,000 people.

 

[boone7247]

I would take a modern, loud and close feeling stadium than something like Penn State that looks like the boone county speedway and holds 110,000 people.

I agree, baseball learned this, I think the NBA is learning this the hard way. MLS has tried to do it, the NFL is doing it, for ****** sake The Bears would have ticket demand for a 100k stadium, but yet they play in a 65,000 seat stadium. Smaller is better, it improves fan experience, and if you go through a winning drought you are stuck with 40,000 seats you can't sell.

 

[intrepid27]

Can't wait for the new tarp. That'll make it top notch.

Rumor has it that they will also have alternative tarps this year, camo, matte finish, high gloss, etc.

 

[CyArob]

It's a beautiful looking stadium, but I'm baffled that there is only seating for 45,000 with a future expansion plan to get to 55,000. I know that Baylor is probably the 4th most popular team in Texas (Texas, TAMU, Texas Tech), maybe even 5th behind TCU, but wouldn't you figure they want to bring capacity up to at least 65,000+?

They're not popular. They don't have many fans.

 

[WalkingCY]

Man, I am going to miss this beauty.

Nice new stadium for Baylor.

 

[cydline2cydline]

Pretty tiny video board. I thought everything was bigger in Texas?

Looks really nice.

 

[surly]

Several big time programs are (have) downsizing there stadiums.

http://www.kentucky.com/2013/11/25/2953012/live-updates-streaming-video-final.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/education/01stanford.html?_r=0

 

[FrankDrebin]

Pretty tiny video board. I thought everything was bigger in Texas?

It's 107x47. Good for 12th largest in the nation among college stadiums.

ISU's is 79.5x36. 31st nationally.

 

[aeroclone]

For anyone having a little trouble picturing what this would look like on gameday...

 

[JDDCy]

The capacity is actually fairly large when you compare it to a lot of the other private schools like Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Duke.

 

[redrocker]

Bunch of haters today. I think it looks good.

Now when they do not fill it, then we can hate on them.

 

[The_Architect]

Looks very nice. Kind of reminds me of the Gophers new stadium.

 

[The_Architect]

Pretty tiny video board. I thought everything was bigger in Texas?

This isn't going to end well for you.

 

[The_Architect]

Pretty tiny video board. I thought everything was bigger in Texas?

It's 107x47. Good for 12th largest in the nation among college stadiums.

ISU's is 79.5x36. 31st nationally.

Hilarious, happened much sooner than I expected. Pwnd.

 

[Wesley]

Being a religious school, the Baylor stadium will not have the Bunny Club for recruits like Alabama does.

 

[baylrballa]

For anyone having a little trouble picturing what this would look like on game...

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left off the 71-7 on the scoreboard. :wink:


Also, thanks to those w/o little man syndrome for the nice comments. It's not perfect but it' a hell of a lot better than what we had. Fanbase is improving but still a long way to go after decades of crap. Those who "tried" to tailgate 3-6-10 years ago would have a much different opinion now. Doubt we'll ever reach say an iowa state level, but it's not bad for a little baptist school.

 

[baylrballa]

Being a religious school, the Baylor stadium will not have the Bunny Club for recruits like Alabama does.

prayer group and dr pepper for everyone!

 

[FrankDrebin]

For anyone having a little trouble picturing what this would look like on game...

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The place is already sold out

 

[DesertClone1]

I have a question... why is there a huge chunk of the stadium missing?

 

[abe2010]

So could the tarp not get a block of seats in one area? Maybe it had to split up across many smaller sections of the stadium